Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference
The BSPC ( Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference , abbr. BSPC ) is a federation of national and regional parliaments in the Baltic Sea region and with reference to the Baltic Sea region. The conference takes place annually and was founded in 1991 on the initiative of the Finnish President Mauno Koivisto , the successor to Urho Kekkonen . Its aim is to promote a common identity within the Baltic Sea Region through close cooperation between the national and regional parliaments.
Members
The body currently consists of eleven national and regional parliaments and five parliamentary institutions from the Baltic Sea region, including Russia , Norway , Iceland and Greenland . The following parliaments from Germany participate in the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference: the German Bundestag , the Bremen Citizenship , the Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament .
National Parliaments
- Federation Assembly ( Russia )
- Folketing ( Denmark )
- Bundestag ( Germany )
- Riigikogu ( Estonia )
- Eduskunta ( Finland )
- Althing ( Iceland )
- Saeima ( Latvia )
- Seimas ( Lithuania )
- Storting ( Norway )
- Polish Parliament ( Poland )
- Reichstag ( Sweden )
Regional parliaments
- Løgting ( Faroe Islands )
- Åland ( Finland )
- Bremen Citizenship ( Germany )
- Hamburg Citizenship ( Germany )
- State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( Germany )
- State Parliament Schleswig-Holstein ( Germany )
- Inatsisartut ( Greenland )
- Kaliningrad Regional Duma ( Russia )
- Parliament of the Republic of Karelia ( Karelia )
- Leningrad Oblast Parliament ( Russia )
- Parliament of Saint Petersburg ( Russia )
Parliamentary institutions
- Baltic Assembly
- European Parliament
- Nordic Council
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
target
The conference serves to strengthen the common identity of the Baltic Sea region and promotes the discussion and the exchange of information between the parliaments involved and with other bodies and organizations at international and interregional level. Furthermore, the Baltic Sea parliamentarians take on common ecological, social and economic issues, initiate appropriate political measures and accompany them.
job
The representatives of the people meet once a year to formulate their demands on their own governments, the EU, the Baltic Sea Council and other actors in the Baltic Sea region. The BSPC Standing Committee prepares the conference together with the respective host country and monitors the implementation of the resolutions passed by the parliamentarians. In addition, the representatives deal with changing current topics in working groups, the findings of which are also included in the resolutions. The working groups usually fulfill their mandate for a period of two years. After the mandate of a working group has expired, the Standing Committee often appoints a rapporteur who follows developments in the subject area dealt with by the working group and reports regularly to the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference.
In 2002, the conference was granted observer status at the environmental organization HELCOM , which the President of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament, Sylvia Bretschneider , assumes together with the Finnish MEP Christina Gestrin for the current meeting period and follows the relevant activities of the HELCOM committees.
Conferences
No. | place | country | date |
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1 | Helsinki | Finland | 7th to 9th January 1991 |
2 | Oslo | Norway | April 22-24, 1992 |
3 | Warsaw | Poland | May 5-6, 1994 |
4th | Rønne | Denmark | September 12-13, 1995 |
5 | Riga | Latvia | September 10-11, 1996 |
6th | Danzig | Poland | September 15-16, 1997 |
7th | Lübeck | Germany | September 7th to 8th, 1998 |
8th | Mariehamn | Åland | September 7th to 8th, 1999 |
9 | Malmo | Sweden | September 4-5, 2000 |
10 | Greifswald | Germany | September 3-4, 2001 |
11 | St. Petersburg | Russia | September 30th to October 1st, 2002 |
12 | Oulu | Finland | September 7th to 9th, 2003 |
13 | Mountains | Norway | August 29th to 31st, 2004 |
14th | Vilnius | Lithuania | August 29-30, 2005 |
15th | Reykjavík | Iceland | September 3rd to 5th, 2006 |
16 | Berlin | Germany | August 27-28, 2007 |
17th | Visby | Sweden | September 1st to 2nd, 2008 |
18th | Nyborg | Denmark | August 31 to September 1, 2009 |
19th | Mariehamn | Åland | August 29th to 31st, 2010 |
20th | Helsinki | Finland | August 28-30, 2011 |
21st | St. Petersburg | Russia | August 26-28, 2012 |
22nd | Parnu | Estonia | August 25-27, 2013 |
23 | Olsztyn | Poland | August 24-26, 2014 |
24 | Rostock | Germany | August 31 to September 1, 2015 |
25th | Riga | Latvia | August 28th to 30th, 2016 |
26th | Hamburg | Germany | 3rd to 5th September 2017 |
27 | Mariehamn | Åland | August 26-28, 2018 |
28 | Oslo | Norway | August 25-27, 2019 |
29 | Vilnius | Lithuania | 23rd to 25th August 2020 |
structure
Presidency
During the 25th conference, Carola Veit , President of the Hamburg Parliament, took over the presidency for the period 2016–2017. The Åland Islands Parliament ( Lagting ) will chair the 2017-2018 period and host the 2018 annual conference.
General Secretariat
The general secretariat of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference is taken over by the administration of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
Web links
- Official website of the Baltic Sea Parliamentarians' Conference (English)
- Official website of HELCOM (English)
- Information on the delegation of the German Bundestag to the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference
literature
- Report on the 25th Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference (BSPC) from 28-30. August 2016 in Riga on the homepage of the State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Report by the President of the State Parliament, Sylvia Bretschneider, on the opening of the 24th Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference on August 31, 2015 in Rostock
- Report on the perception of the observer status of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference at HELCOM 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 (printed matter from the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament 6/1405) (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- Special mandates of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament in connection with the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference in 2011/2012 / [Ed .: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament, Dept. Parliamentary Services, Secretariat of the European and Legal Committee and International Affairs of the State Parliament]. - Schwerin, 2013. - 270 p.: Ill., Graph. Darst., Text German and English.
- Maritime politics in the focus of the parliaments: joint event of the parliaments of the northern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein / [Ed .: Bremen Citizenship ... Responsible: State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Bodo Bahr ...]. - Schwerin: State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 2007. - 138 p.: Ill., Graph. Darst., ISBN 3-932447-50-6 , Congress: Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference; 16, Berlin: 2007.06.11.
- Schöning, Jürgen: The parliamentary dimension of the Baltic Sea cooperation: the contribution of the north German state parliaments In: Journal for parliamentary questions; 36 (2005) 3, pp. 589-599
- Maritime security in the Baltic Sea area: Documentation of the work of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament on the subject of "Maritime Security" within the framework of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament. - Schwerin, vol. 1. 2001. - 862 pp., ISBN 3-932447-15-8 , vol. 2. 2002. - 480 pp., ISBN 3-932447-21-2 , vol. 3. 2003. - 440 pp., ISBN 3-932447-26-3 , Vol. 4. 2004. - 345 pp., ISBN 3-932447-32-8
- Bahr, Bodo: Projects, experiences and expectations of a cooperation between regional and national parliaments in the Baltic Sea region In: Between legitimacy and effectiveness - on the role of parliament in the field of foreign policy action. - 2006. - pp. 157-172
- Final report of the Working Group on Trafficking in Human Beings / Jan Widberg [arr.]; Nordic Council. - Copenhagen, 2011, 52 pp. [English]